Robert Shea Quotes

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

That was a real fireball.